Resolved Help With Textarea Tag

[Joseph Witchard]

How do you set the textarea tag to where when the sentence becomes too long for the textarea, it automatically starts typing on a new line? (Like the textarea I'm typing in to make this post.)

[itsallkizza]

you can use html attributes: wrap="soft" wrap="hard" wrap="off"

hard: wraps text and includes the carriage returns in the textarea value
soft: wraps text but doesn't add carriage returns
off: obviously, no word wrapping

you'll probably want to use soft

it's odd though, iirc most browsers default to textarea word wrapping

[Joseph Witchard]

Is there anything else that can be done? Even using the wrap attribute, it still doesn't work in either Firefox or Opera. Only Internet Explorer I even looked up the attribute values for IE browsers and tried them instead. Nothing.

[owt200x]

opera seems to disable much code like that it even disables the body code i use to disable rightclicking and drag and drop.

i have been using

wrap="PHYSICAL"

does that even work?

[Joseph Witchard]

Got it working. Thanks Just out of curiosity (I think I know what the answer will be), there doesn't happen to be any W3C standard way of doing this, is there?

[_Aerospace_Eng_]

You could use javascript to set the wrapping but then again this is just going around the main issue.

window.onload = function()
{
document.forms[0].yourtextareaname.setAttribute('wrap','physical');
}

[itsallkizza]

Joseph: what was your solution? (And I apologize for not checking in all browsers before posting.)

[Joseph Witchard]

Dang, I was hoping no one would ask It was just a stupid error on my part. When I was testing the textarea by typing in it, I just held down a key and watched whatever character I selected type as long as it could across the textarea. Then, when I was posting here, I did the same thing (I don't remember why I did so), but I saw that it did the same thing here, too. I didn't know that you had to actually be typing out words and such to get the text to wrap in the textarea. Sorry for any inconvenience I caused you guys

[Major Payne]

Might even play with another example :

<textarea name="Limiting Textarea Text" rows="2" cols="20" onkeyup="textLimit(this, 40);"></textarea>

Between head tags:

<script type="text/javascript">
 function textLimit(field, maxlen) {
if (field.value.length > maxlen + 1)
alert('Your input has been truncated!');
if (field.value.length > maxlen)
field.value = field.value.substring(0, maxlen);
}
</script>

[Joseph Witchard]

All right, cool